In message <200212141746.gBEHk7A00312@fearless-vampire-killer.waterside.net>, R
afal Boni writes:
>In message <20021213232451.83306.qmail@web11705.mail.yahoo.com>, you write:
>
>-> --- Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
>[...]
>-> > Maybe you can try to force the media ?
>-> > ifconfig tlp0 media 10baseT
>->
>-> This worked. The status of the interface changes to active, and I can
>-> pull an address from the dhcp server. However, when I try to force
>-> 100BaseTX, it also reports that the interface is active, but it's
>-> unable to connect to the AirPort. Any ideas why one should work,
>-> but not the other?
>
>Probably because the Airport supports only 10BaseT and not 100BaseT, and
>when you force one end of the interface (your Tulip card in this case),
>the other end of the link needs to be in the same "forced" state for the
>two ends to be able to communicate because forcing media generally dis-
>ables autonegotiation.
>
That was my first thought, especially since I have a 10BaseT-only
Lucent "Residential Gateway", which is a clone of the Airport. But a
check of Apple's Web page shows that the newer Airports do support
100BaseT.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)